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n. Law One against whom an appeal is taken.

n. A respondent.

n. The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.

n. The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor.

n. In law, the person against whom an appeal is brought; the respondent in an appeal.

"If the opposite parties were countrymen, they were to follow their national customs, whatever they were; if the appellee were a foreigner, or of foreign descent, he might offer wager of battle, and on its being declined, purge himself by his own oath and that of his witnesses, according to the Norman law; or if a native of the country, he might have his choice of the trial by ordeal or by battle."

appellant    appellor